Mail for Santa

Ever wondered why you didn't get the presents you ordered from Santa Claus? (watch it in HD on youtube)
This is another one for illustration friday... on a pretty tight schedule, so it turned out to be more of an animatic than an actual animation. I hope you still like it - maybe I can smooth it out for next year... and even add a German version.

Btw, procrastination is a good friend of mine, too (isn't it sometimes weird, that things we really care about don't get done, because we want to deal with them properly when we have time and not rush them right now). But I just read a book (GTD by David Allen) and hope the suggestions will help getting more stuff done like this little short film.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody!

beneath (illustration friday)

I was going for a mole-disco when I realized Christy B. had done something similar. That is why poor little penguin got pushed beneath a falling piano...

(Don't worry, he'll be ok - flattened out, he'll waddle to the side and pop to normal size just like every good cartoon character would) ...another one for Illustration Friday.

proverb (illustration friday)

History repeats itself... but it takes all sorts to make a world (or a sentence).
Btw, textorizer is pretty cool!

craving (illustration friday)

Have you seen "Little Red Hot Riding Hood"? It's a great Tex Avery short from 1943. The makers of "The Mask" obviously have - Jim Carrey has a craving for Cameron Diaz. My mixed memories of those two films lead me to painting this green version of Mr. Wolf - hope you like it.
...another one for Illustration Friday.

Magnicifant says Merry Christmas!

I was wondering what a little magnific elephant could be looking like on Christmas (just a pun we had a lot of fun with the other day).

vac ant

Vac Ant always hated to vacuum-clean after the queens' orgies. That you could see a huge difference before and after cleaning made it satisfactory, though.
(another one for illustration friday)

grow

Mr. Inch Worm needs a bigger house to hide from the bird... now!
I found those wallpaper patterns on squidfingers.com and decided to use them for IllustrationFriday.

o pen

As you can see, it's the begging sheets of paper that make me draw - not the confidence in my drawing skills... another doodle for Illustrationfriday.

missing

Miss Ing was missing the realization that she would always mis-sing. Her dog Deaffy didn't seem to mind, neither her lack of talent nor visibility.

My second illustration for Illustration Friday (ballpen and Photoshop)

honeyMoon

Mr. H. Moon is supposed to deliver a speech about job satisfaction next friday...

I need to improve on my drawing skills - so I decided to doodle every now and then for Illustration Friday (just in case you don't know IF: it's an awesome resource for inspiration, having so many different interpretations of one subject).

looking forward to 2007

That's what came out of my pen when thinking about one of my favorite animation studios in 2006 and 2007... wish you a Happy New Year 2007!

kangaroo progress

Here's another animation test for my website

my website sucks!

Other than creating websites for friends, I'm working on my own one, too. It desperately needs to be redesigned (not to mention the ancient content and the broken links). So here's one of the flash animations... it still has some issues (just keep clicking and rolling over).
The relaunch is scheduled for the end of this year... or January 2007... well, hopefully not much later.

fooling around with photoshop

You can tell those guys' website needs a redesign - that's what I'm gonna be helping with... here are the first background designs (trying to mix perfect skin with dirty surfaces, alluding to the melody and rawness of their songs).